UPHESC Assistant Professor Hindi 2025 PYQs

Concept: Bagheli (Baghelkhand) is spoken in Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, Shahdol region.

1. Hoshangabad, Sagar – Bundeli area.
2. Bilaspur – Chhattisgarhi.

Short trick: Baghelkhand = Rewa-Satna-Sidhi-Shahdol.

Concept: 'Chakallas' (1933) is the Awadhi poetry collection of Balbhadra Prasad Dixit 'Padhees', with a preface by Nirala.

1. Ramai Kaka – 'Bauchhar'; Banshidhar Shukla – 'Kisan Panchayat' etc.

Short trick: Padhees = Chakallas (Nirala's preface).

Concept: Devanagari is a phonetic script whose signs stand for sounds (letters/varna); it is basically alphabetic (varnatmak), written in syllabic clusters.

1. Pictographic (chitratmak) scripts draw objects; symbolic/ideographic scripts stand for ideas.
2. 'Varnanatmak' (descriptive) is not a script type.

Short trick: Devanagari: one sign – one sound → वर्णात्मक (with akshar-wise writing).

Concept: 'Bharatiya Prachin Lipimala' (1894) by Mahamahopadhyay Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha is the classic Hindi work on Indian palaeography.

1. Kamta Prasad Guru – Hindi Vyakaran; S.K. Chatterji – Origin and Development of the Bengali Language; Kishoridas Vajpeyi – Hindi Shabdanushasan.

Short trick: Ojha = Lipi + Rajputana history.

Concept: Sharada (Kashmir, c. 8th–9th c.) developed from western Gupta-Brahmi, independently of Nagari.

1. Kaithi and Gujarati are Nagari-derived (Gujarati = Nagari without shirorekha).
2. Bangla is placed in the Nagari/eastern Kutila line in Hindi textbooks; Sharada is the separate north-western branch (→ Takri, Gurmukhi).

Short trick: Sharada → Takri → Gurmukhi: a separate north-western line.

Concept: Script (lipi) is the system of written signs that makes the sounds of a language visible.

1. Sound is the spoken medium; sentence and grammar are units/rules of language, not a medium of signs.

Short trick: Language heard = sound; language seen = lipi.

Concept: Devanagari largely has one sign for one sound and is read as written – its chief scientific merit.

1. Roman: 'c' = क/स, 'u' = अ/उ.
2. Persian: several letters for one sound (स = से, सीन, स्वाद).

Short trick: Nagari: 'jaisa bolo, vaisa likho'.

Concept: Unicode is a universal character-encoding standard: every character gets a unique code number (Devanagari block U+0900–U+097F).

1. It is not a typing method, but a code system – among the options 'कोडवर्ड'.

Short trick: Unicode = one unique code for every letter of every script.

Concept: Mangal, Kruti Dev and Chanakya are Devanagari fonts.

1. Mangal is a Unicode font (Windows default); Kruti Dev and Chanakya are older non-Unicode (legacy) fonts.

Short trick: Mangal = Unicode; Kruti Dev/Chanakya = legacy.

Concept: The headline (shirorekha) over letters is a feature of Devanagari.

1. Gujarati is Nagari-derived but drops the shirorekha.
2. Persian and Roman have no headline.

Short trick: Gujarati = Nagari minus the top line.

Concept: LILA (Learn Indian Languages through Artificial intelligence) Hindi Prabodh, Praveen, Pragya – self-learning packages for teaching Hindi, from the Rajbhasha Vibhag.

1. Prabodh, Praveen, Pragya are the three graded Hindi teaching courses.

Short trick: LILA = Learn Hindi (Prabodh–Praveen–Pragya).

Concept: Unicode stands for a Universal (unique, uniform) character code – one standard for all scripts of the world.

1. It is 'universal' because it covers all writing systems; 'unit/unit digital code' are not expansions.

Short trick: Unicode = Universal code.

Concept: The Guru Gorakshnath Samman (₹5 lakh, for work on Adikal literature) for 2021 went to Dr. Kanhaiya Singh (Azamgarh); it was announced in June 2022.

1. Hindustani Academy's top all-India awards: Guru Gorakshnath (Adikal), Goswami Tulsidas (Bhaktikal), Sant Kabir.

Short trick: Gorakshnath = Adikal award → Kanhaiya Singh (2021).

Concept: Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award 2021: Daya Prakash Sinha for the play 'Samrat Ashok'.

1. 2019 Nand Kishore Acharya, 2020 Anamika, 2021 Daya Prakash Sinha; Ramdarash Mishra got it in 2015.

Short trick: 2019-20-21: Acharya – Anamika – Sinha.

Concept: Nagari Pracharini Sabha, Kashi was founded on 16 July 1893 by Shyamsundar Das, Ramnarayan Mishra and Shivkumar Singh.

1. It produced the Hindi Shabdasagar and the search for Hindi manuscripts.

Short trick: 1893 – three students of Queen's College, Varanasi.

Concept: Dr. Rameshchandra Mishra, a scholar of Nirgun Sant poetry, compiled the 'Sant-Sahitya-Sandarbh Kosh'.

1. Vidyaniwas Mishra – lalit nibandh; Vishwanath Prasad Mishra – Riti literature (Bihari, Ghananand); Krishnavihari Mishra – lalit nibandh/journalism.

Short trick: Sant kosh → Rameshchandra Mishra (Sant scholar).

Concept: Kunwar Narayan: Sahitya Akademi (1995, 'Koi Doosra Nahin'), Vyas Samman (1995) and Jnanpith (2005).

1. Dinkar died in 1974; Vyas Samman began in 1991.
2. Bhisham Sahni – no Jnanpith; Naresh Mehta – Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith but not Vyas.

Short trick: Kunwar Narayan – all three (Vyas came in 1995 with Akademi).

Concept: Hindustani Academy, Allahabad (Prayagraj) was established in 1927 (U.P. Government) to promote Hindi and Urdu.

1. It publishes the journal 'Hindustani'.

Short trick: Hindustani Academy = 1927.

Concept: Kendriya Hindi Sansthan (founded 1960/61, Ministry of Education) has its headquarters at Agra.

1. Regional centres: Delhi, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Shillong, Mysuru, Dimapur, Bhubaneswar, Ahmedabad.

Short trick: Kendriya Hindi Sansthan = Agra.

Concept: Bharat Bharati Samman is the highest award of the Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan.

1. Vyas and Saraswati Samman are given by the K.K. Birla Foundation; Jnanpith by the Bharatiya Jnanpith.

Short trick: UP Hindi Sansthan → Bharat Bharati.